Echoes and Reflections is a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of resources for middle and high school teachers. Echoes and Reflections prepares educators to teach about the Holocaust in a way that stimulates engagement and critical thinking while providing opportunities for students to see the relevance of this complex history to their own lives. 

Why Use Echoes and Reflections?

It’s Relevant
Individual stories and visual history testimonies from survivors, liberators, and other witnesses of the Holocaust help students examine contemporary social issues related to fairness and justice.

It’s Resource-intensive
Extensive primary and secondary source materials aligned with modular, interdisciplinary lessons help students understand what happened during the Holocaust, why it happened, and how it relates to difficult issues they face today. Plus every participant receives a free, comprehensive Teacher’s Resource Guide.

It’s Up-to-date
Teacher-friendly materials address academic standards and incorporate a mix of instructional strategies and technologies for use in 21st century classrooms.

It’s Accessible
Echoes and Reflections provides value to both experienced Holocaust educators who are supplementing their curricula and for teachers new to Holocaust education.
Address academic standards and incorporate a mix of instructional strategies and technologies for use in 21st century classrooms with teacher-friendly materials.
Tap into a repository of visual history testimony offering first-hand accounts from survivors, liberators, and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
Learn effective teaching strategies to help students understand what happened during the Holocaust, why it happened, and how it relates to difficult issues they face today.
Led by an experienced facilitator.

Echoes and Reflections delivers value to both experienced Holocaust educators who are supplementing their curricula and for teachers new to Holocaust education.

This training satisfies the Professional Development Requirements for educators in the State of Oregon. This day will count toward six PDUs.

For more information, email holocausteducation@ojmche.org.